{"id":3877,"date":"2008-06-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:55:43","slug":"what-if-todays-media-were-covering-the-normandy-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3877","title":{"rendered":"What if today&#8217;s media were covering the Normandy invasion?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I posted, <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2008\/06\/64th-anniversary-of-d-day-the-invasion-of-normandy.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: 64th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy<\/font><\/a>&nbsp;yesterday was the 64th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"D-Day: Crisis On Omaha\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Px_XBJHrs4I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, here is Eisenhower&#8217;s speech to the troops on D-Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"General Dwight D. Eisenhower&#039;s D-Day Speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WEyCjN9riiY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I posted, Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: 64th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy&nbsp;yesterday was the 64th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Meanwhile, here is Eisenhower&#8217;s speech to the troops on D-Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12166,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/12166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}